In this essay I am going to concentrate on three poems ''An old man's winter night'', ''Follower'' and ''Lore''.

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In this essay I am going to concentrate on three poems ‘‘An old man’s winter night’’, ‘‘Follower’’ and ‘’Lore’’. All these three poems are wrote by three very famous poets ‘Robert Frost’ wrote ‘’An old man’s winter night’’ and ‘Seamus Heaney’ wrote ‘’Follower’’ and ‘R.S. Thomas’ wrote ‘’Lore’. Interestingly all three poems are about elderly men but all three are totally different in different ways, but in other ways are very similar. They also have hidden meanings which I will hope to find later in this essay.

Robert frost (the writer of an old mans winter night) is one of the most popular poets of his time, his poetry spoke the language of the common man and sometimes projected powerful messages but deep down there are hidden meanings hid deeper in the text. He wrote poems that seemed to go beyond the range of any region, which lade him to be the four time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Frost was born in 1874 in San Francisco but 11 years later his father died and he and his family moved to Massachusetts where he attended Lawrence high school. He had writing experiences earlier in his life; he was a teacher and a newspaper reporter. It was this experience that had a part to play in getting him In to Harvard

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From 1897-1899 but within a period of 2 years in Harvard he left with out a degree. Frost died in Boston on January 29th, 1963 at the age of 89 but he succeeded in realizing his life ambition: to write ‘’a few poems it will be hard to get rid of’’.

R.S Thomas (the writer of lore) was also one of the most highly respected poets around; born in Cardiff in 1918 he was educated at the university college of north Wales, Bangor. He received his theological training at St. Michael’s, Cardiff. At Manafon he wrote nearly all poems ...

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